Save for/Buy a Canon Digital Rebel XT

OK, I finally received my camera… not the one from eBay, but the one that I ordered from another location. It has been a very fun weekend. :)

It appears that I am going to have to open this goal and do this all over again. Last week, I won an auction on eBay for a Digital Rebel XT. It was an auction for multiple items, so there was actually several purchasers. After about three days, I got on eBay to contact the seller for a tracking number. To my disappointment, I found that the seller is no longer a registered user of eBay.

There is a 10 day wait before eBay and/or Paypal will take a complaint. After that, I am not sure how long it will take to get the money back if I go through the proper channels. I could go ahead and call VISA, but I hate to do that to Paypal. I don’t know if they will cancel my account on Paypal or not.

OK… I now have to sit here and wait for the camera to get here.

OK… I guess I get to find out what “whatever” really means next week. I made the purchase of the new camera today. I found it on eBay. The final price was a little more than I had originally mentioned to my wife, but I still saved about $300. Hey… I got free shipping! :)

Yea, ladies… have you ever said that to your guy when they asked you about buying something? We married guys know exactly what that means. It means you sure as heck better not get it, because you will pay for it if you do. hahahaha

I mentioned to my wife about buying the Digital Rebel XT from eBay, because I had found it about $500 less than what it goes for retail. She told me “whatever”.

Hmm… I wonder if she means that she does not care if I purchase it? I better make bedding arrangements outside with my Labrador Retriever. :)

My father just picked up a steal on a Canon Digital Rebel. This is the original (300D), not the XT (350D) model. I got to play around with it today a little when he dropped by to try out my 75-300 mm lens on it. One thing that I noticed real quickly is that the 300D is a lot bigger and a little heavier than my Canon EOS Rebel G (film camera).

Unfortunately, my father is going to have to send the camera off, because we finally figured out why someone took it back to the location where he got it. It will not fire a shot when the lens is set in AF (auto-focus) mode. According to posts that I have found on a few forums, the original Digital Rebel had an issue with the secondary auto-focus pin breaking after a few months of use. One person’s description of the problem was exactly what we were seeing here. :(

Nonetheless, it does take some pretty nice pictures in manual mode. I believe he is probably going to keep it and use it in manual mode for the next few weeks until my nephews high school football season is over and then send it off to be repaired under warranty.

This pretty much seals my desire on the Digital Rebel, but I will be getting the 8 megapixel XT model, though. :)

My wife and I already have a Canon EOS Rebel G with a couple of lenses. I am interested in the Digital Rebel, because I can use the same lenses from the 35 mm camera on the digital camera. We already have a Canon A80 point-and-shoot, but I would love to get the digital SLR next.